CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2013/ch1 1w30 ps

Ruby on Rails Web Hosting Services

Introduction

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Typically, while hosting web applications, it becomes essential to host the core website component, databases and other resources necessary for running the application. There are many web hosting options available like free web hosting, shared hosting, dedicated server, and the list goes on. Today, many companies provide services for hosting web application where they manage the infrastructure along with maintenance and the application developer needs to focus only on the actual application development. The service charges depend upon the factors like disk space, bandwidth, email account or FTP access. Nowadays, many companies provide Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS) to deploy and scale applications in Cloud.

Some popular PaaS providers are:

• Amazon Web Service

Not a platform in the traditional sense, Amazon's AWS Elastic Beanstalk changes how developers push their apps into Amazon's cloud. Developers upload the app and Elastic Beanstalk handles the deployment details, capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling and app health monitoring.

• Heroku

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting building, deployment and scaling of applications using several programming languages like Ruby, Java, Python,Node.js ,Clojure, PHP and Perl.

• Engine Yard

Engine Yard's platform offers simple, automated Rails deployment and management that makes for easy app migration.

• Google App Engine

The developer platform that lets users build and host Web apps in the cloud in an effortless fashion.

• GridGain

Open-source cloud application platform helps developers build scalable applications that can work natively on managed infrastructure, from a Google Android device to large grids and clouds. The software supports major OSes and provides native support for Java and Scala.

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Heroku

Heroku, one of the first cloud platforms, has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the Ruby programming language, but has since added support for Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure and Python and (undocumented) PHP and Perl. The base operating system is Debian

History

James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry founded Heroku supporting Rack-compatible projects<ref>http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/08/ruby-on-rails-startup-heroku-gets-3-million</ref>. In October 2009 Byron Sebastian joined Heroku as CEO<ref>http://venturebeat.com/2009/10/14/sourcelabs-byron-sebastian-joins-heroku-as-ceo</ref>. On December 8, 2010 Salesforce.com acquired Heroku as a wholly owned subsidiary of Salesforce.com. On July 12, 2011 Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the chief designer of the Ruby programming language, joined the company as Chief Architect, Ruby. That month, Heroku included support for Node.js and Clojure.On September 15, 2011 Heroku and Facebook introduced Heroku for Facebook<ref>https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/558</ref>.Heroku now supports Cloudant, Couchbase Server, MongoDB and Redis, besides the standard PostgreSQL, both as part of the platform and as a standalone service.

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